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CodePlex 
CodePlex homepageURL http://www.codeplex.com/ Type of site Forge Registration Optional Available language(s) English Owner Microsoft Launched May 2006 Alexa rank 
2,082 (November 2011[update])[1]Current status Online CodePlex is an open source project hosting website from Microsoft. It allows shared development of open source software. CodePlex is an open-source Website where engineers and computer scientists share projects and ideas [2] Its features include wiki pages, source control based on Mercurial, Team Foundation Server or Subversion (also powered by TFS), discussion forums, issue tracking, project tagging, RSS support, statistics, and releases (ClickOnce-releases are also supported). Since January 22, 2010, Mercurial distributed source control system is supported as well,[3] and this support has been enhanced.[4][5]
While Codeplex encompasses a wide variety of projects, including SQL, WPF and Windows Forms-related projects, major activities center around the .NET framework, including ASP.NET, and Microsoft's intranet collaboration server, SharePoint. The most prominent and used project that was born inside CodePlex, the AJAX Control Toolkit is a joint project between the community and Microsoft.
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History
The initial beta launched in May 2006, with the official release a month later in June. A new version of the website is released every three weeks adding additional features and updates. It has accumulated 13,022 projects as of January 2, 2010.
The OuterCurve Foundation provides oversight for CodePlex.com. Originally called The CodePlex Foundation, it was renamed in 2010.[6]
See also
- Google Code Project Hosting
- SourceForge.net
- List of free software project directories
- Comparison of open source software hosting facilities
- Runtime Intelligence Service
References
- ^ "Codeplex.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/codeplex.com. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
- ^ Sue Karlin (2011-06-06). "Social Networks for Engineers". IEEE.org. http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/tech-careers/social-networks-for-engineers. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
- ^ CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial
- ^ Associating Change sets to Releases and Displaying Mercurial Branches/Tags
- ^ CodePlex Mercurial Support for Forks
- ^ "Codeplex Foundation becomes OuterCurve"
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Bug tracking systems Years indicate the date of first stable release. Client-server 
Distributed Free/open-source- Fossil (2006)
Hosted - SourceForge (1999)
- BerliOS (2000)
- GNU Savannah (2000)
- Assembla (2005)
- CodePlex (2006)
- Google Code (2007)
- GitHub (2008)
- Bitbucket (2008)
- Bontq (2010)
- YouTrack (2011)
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Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
